Genesis 47:6 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁶ After this Joseph brought in his to the king, and presented him before him: and he blessed him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The land of Egypt is before you; make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know of any men of ability among them, put them in charge of my cattle.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and thy brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

Common English Bible

⁶ the land of Egypt is available to you. Settle your father and brothers in the land’s best location. Let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know capable men among them, put them in charge of my own livestock.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The land of Egypt is in your sight. Cause them to live in the best place, and deliver to them the land of Goshen. And if you know there to be industrious men among them, appoint these as foremen over my cattle."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The land of Egypt is before thee: make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

Genesis 47:6 Cross References

Genesis 13:10

0 And Lot, lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor.

Genesis 13:9

Behold the whole land is before thee: depart from me I pray thee: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I will take the right: if thou choose the right hand, I will pass to the left.

Genesis 20:15

5 And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

Genesis 34:10

1 Sichem also said to her father and to her brethren: Let me find favor in your sight: and whatsoever you shall appoint I will give.

Genesis 45:10

1 And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining,) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.

Genesis 46:34

Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen.

Genesis 47:11

2 And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

Genesis 47:16

7 And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, end asses and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.

Genesis 47:4

The king therefore said to Joseph: Thy father and thy brethren are come to thee.

Genesis 47:5

The land of Egypt is before thee: make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

1 Kings 11:28

3 Because he hath forsaken me, and hath adored Astarthe the goddess of the Sidonians, and Chamos the god of Moab, and Moloch the god of the children of Ammon: and hath not walked in my ways, to do justice before me, and to keep my precepts, and judgments as did David his father.

2 Chronicles 26:10

5 And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him.

Exodus 18:21

4 And when Moses heard this, he did all things that he had suggested unto him.

Exodus 18:25

In the third month of the departure of Israel out of the land of Egypt, on this day they came into the wilderness of Sinai:

Exodus 9:10

2 And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.

Exodus 9:21

4 And the hail and fire mixed with it drove on together: and it was of so great bigness, as never before was seen in the whole land of Egypt since that nation was founded.

Proverbs 21:1

The perverse way of a man is strange: but as for him that is pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 22:29

Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

Jeremiah 40:4

2 All the Jews, I say, returned out of all the places to which they had fled, and they came into the land of Juda to Godolias to Masphath: and they gathered wine, and a very great harvest.

John 17:2

0 And all my things are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.

1 Samuel 21:7

2 But David laid up these words in his heart, and was exceedingly afraid at the face of Achis the king of Geth.